Teach your children well: introduction to the book symposium on Julian Culp’s democratic education in a globalized world

Abstract

This paper provides an introduction to the book symposium on Julian Culp’s Democratic Education in a Globalized World. In this paper we introduce the themes and core claims of Culp’s book, sketch the contributions made by authors of this symposium, and highlight the plausibility of the book’s significance for debates in political philosophy, philosophy of education, educational public policy, as well as for the practice of political education. The issue includes three critical essays by Michael Festl, Martin Beckstein, and Michael Geiss as well as a response to the critics by Culp.

Keywords

• global justice
• educational justice
• citizenship education
• personal moral autonomy
• global democracy
• educational public policy